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Randy Gardner | 16 Nov 2004 23:39

Any progress on MCA machines?

Do you know if any progress has been made on getting netbsd to run on 
mca-based rs6000 boxes?  I have an 8-way j50 machine, that I'd love to 
get something other its current outdated version of AIX for...

mca rs/6000 boxes are listed on the "suggested ports" section, so I'm 
guessing no work has been done on supporting them, but figure I should 
double-check before giving up.  :)

Thanks in advance,
--Randy
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Jim Spath | 19 Nov 2004 01:20

NetBSD on IA64?


I did not see any Intel Itanium on http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/

We have a workstation at my office running HPUX, so it might be possible
for me to work on a NetBSD port, although getting the HP testdrive
team to sponsor it would be better.

The HP site lists:

HP HP-UX 11i v2 Integrity rx1600 2 Itanium II, 1.0GHz spe176.testdrive.hp.com 
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 Integrity rx2600 2 Itanium II, 900MHz spe156.testdrive.hp.com 
Red Hat Ent Linux AS 3.0 Intel White Box 4 Itanium II, 1.4GHz spe174.testdrive.hp.com 
SuSE Enterprise Server 9 Integrity rx1600 2 Itanium II, 1.0 GHz spe187.testdrive.hp.com 

http://www.testdrive.hp.com/current.shtml

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Jonathan A. Kollasch | 22 Nov 2004 01:53

Re: NetBSD on IA64?

This just keeps coming up.

On Thursday, November 18, 2004 06:20 pm, Jim Spath wrote:
> I did not see any Intel Itanium on http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/

I have sent feedback to the website people.

FreeBSD has some support someone could try to port (although I'm not sure how 
similar we are now that 5.3 is stable)
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ia64/index.html

	Jonathan Kollasch
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Dave Mazzoni | 30 Nov 2004 00:42
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Intel XScale NetBSD?

Hi,
   I'm very interested in BSD for embedded systems (such as the Intel  
XScale).  I haven't found much embedded literature for BSD in embedded  
systems.  Considering they comprise many orders of magnitude MORE  
"processors" in the world, having a BSD version tailored for embedded use  
would be very nice.  Have I missed something on the net?  I'm not sure  
where to start if I actually wanted to try the port myself.

   Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Dr. David L. Mazzoni
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Hubert Feyrer | 30 Nov 2004 00:53
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Re: Intel XScale NetBSD?

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Dave Mazzoni wrote:
>  I'm very interested in BSD for embedded systems (such as the Intel XScale). 
> I haven't found much embedded literature for BSD in embedded systems. 
> Considering they comprise many orders of magnitude MORE "processors" in the 
> world, having a BSD version tailored for embedded use would be very nice. 
> Have I missed something on the net?  I'm not sure where to start if I 
> actually wanted to try the port myself.

You want the "evbarm" port of NetBSD, which is for "ARM based EValuation 
Boards", see http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/evbarm/.

Source is in /usr/src/sys/evbarm, see
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/evbarm/ etc.

The mailing list archive is at
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/

A bit of general information about NetBSD on embedded systems can be found 
here: http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/embed.html

An article on how to do cross-compiling from a 1.6.x system can be found 
here: http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/xdev.html

The latest (binary) release can be found at
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6.2/evbarm/. Be sure to read the 
one of the INSTALL.* files in there, they contain further hints for 
installation. Please note also that NetBSD 2.0 will be released within the 
next few days, which may be a major leap forward on all platforms, 
including embedded ones like XScale, but also other ARM based 
CPUs, PowerPC, and MIPS.
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Jachym Holecek | 30 Nov 2004 15:11

Re: Intel XScale NetBSD?

>   I'm very interested in BSD for embedded systems (such as the Intel  
> XScale).  I haven't found much embedded literature for BSD in embedded  
> systems.  Considering they comprise many orders of magnitude MORE  
> "processors" in the world, having a BSD version tailored for embedded use  
> would be very nice.  Have I missed something on the net?

You may also have a look a sys/arch/arm/xscale to see if/how your particular
XScale is supported. There are also two documents that might help (sorry,
I forgot URLs): "NetBSD device writer's guide", "Porting BSD to a new
platform".

> I'm not sure
> where to start if I actually wanted to try the port myself.

Find out which of evbarm variants is most similar to your platform, make
a replica under a new name, and modify it until it works :-).

	-- Jachym Holecek
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